GNU Testimonials—Alexander Ewering

From: Alexander Ewering, instinctive new media

I completely depend on GNU software in my company, which does web
design, design/layout for print, and professional music production. For
most, if not all, of the image manipulation tasks, I use The GIMP, which
is a very powerful, flexible, and quite reliable tool. Furthermore, I
use Slackware's distribution of GNU/Linux as an operating system on one
of the most important workstations, and it, together with its GNU tools,
gives me incredibly reliable performance, not comparable at all with the
poorer performance of so-called “professional,” proprietary
operating systems.

Indeed, I found GNU software on the whole to be much more reliable,
light-weight, and flexible than many proprietary counterparts, plus, GNU
software is often taylored more towards the scientist, and not the common
end-user, which is a definite plus for me.

I use GNU Window Maker on all of my boxes… Furthermore, GCC
and GDB are used frequently for development of GTK+ applications and for
an internal AI (Artificial Intelligence) project, and are both valuable
and reliable tools which have never failed so far.